One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
MovieTitle | 100万年地球の旅 バンダーブック |
User score | 5.5 |
Release date | Aug 27, 1978 |
Genre | Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TV Movie |
Director | Osamu Tezuka |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Tezuka Productions, Nippon Television Network Corporation |
Run time | 92 min. |
Bander is a 17-year-old boy from Earth who lives on a distant planet, which is populated by human shape-shifters who feed off of vegetables and animal tails. Violence soon breaks out, as invaders launch an attack on Bander's new planet. This was Japan's first 2-hour animated film for television. The program received high ratings when broadcast as part of a set of 24-hour TV programs called "Ai wa Chikyu wo Sukuu" on Nippon Television. After a long gap since his last animated film for television, this work fully reflects Osamu Tezuka's desire to achieve theatrical quality with this production.